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carina indistinct dorsally; median flagellar segments 1.25 times as 

 long as wide. 



Pronotal disk moderately ridged anteriorly, with scattered, medium- 

 sized punctures; scutum and scutellum with large pits arranged as in 

 female; mesopleural disk with pits of variable size except in center; 

 metapleuron smooth above; median channel on dorsal propodeal 

 surface with transverse ridges, laterad of this with pits of variable 

 size; posterior surface ridged above, and with shallow contiguous pits. 



First tergum moderately ridged anteriorly, behind the ridge with 

 a row of confluent punctures ; vestiture of sterna very sparse. 



Genitalia with inner surface of squama and cuspis volsellaris not 

 densely setose; apex of cuspis volsellaris digitate; lamina volsellaris 

 with fine setae on ventral margin; paramere without tubercle on 

 inner ventral surface halfway to apex. 



Holotype. — 9, Mt. Maquiling, Luzon, Philippines, 50 meters elev., 

 7 October 1950, L. B. Uichanco (USNM Type No. 69649). 



Allotype. — cf, Los Bafios, Luzon, Philippines, 1917, F. X. 

 Williams (BPBM). 



Paratype. — 9, Mt. Maquiling, 19 January 1954, F. R. Candelaria 

 (PBPI). 



The female paratype is 11.5 mm long, its forewing 7.5 mm; the 

 ocellocular distance is 1.83 times the postocellar distance and 0.58 

 times the ocelloccipital distance. 



Hylomesa crassepunctata (Turner), new combination 



Elis (Mesa) crassepunctata Turner, 1914, pp. 246-247. 



The only specimen available for my study was the unique type 

 in the British Museum. It was collected 8 July 1912 in Coimbatore, 

 South India. 



Male. — Length 11, forewing 7 mm. Black, head red except ocellar 

 triangle and nine apical flagellar segments; pronotum, tegula, and 

 foreleg except coxa and trochanter also red; abdomen with weak 

 blue reflections; apical half of forewing and apical third of hind wing 

 strongly infumated and with bronze to blue reflections. 



Clypeus with apical margin slightly thickened, the median teeth 

 weaker than in dimidiaticornis, the frontal keel weak and present 

 on basal two-thirds; distance from apex of frontal platform to occiput 

 0.89 times the head width including eyes; front with coarse, contiguous 

 punctures and a weak median furrow extending half the distance from 

 median ocellus to frontal platform; ocellocular distance 1.75 times 

 the postocellar distance and subequal to ocelloccipital distance; oc- 

 cipital carina lacking dorsally; median flagellar segments about as 

 broad as long; head shorter behind eyes than in dimidiaticornis. 



